Stone Torii @ Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine (太宰府天満宮)

March 7th, 2014 | Tags: Dazaifu Tenman-gu 太宰府天満宮, fukuoka, Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 AF-S NIKKOR G ED N, Nikon D600, people, torii | Category: Japan | Leave a comment

Shinjuku (Tokyo, Japan) after dark

March 6th, 2014 | Tags: night photography, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600, shinjuku, signs | Category: Japan | Leave a comment

Temple of the Golden Pavilion – Kinkakuji – Kyoto, Japan

One of the previously mentioned postcards was of Kinkakuji. It didn’t take me until 2013 to finally see this magnificent place, although that is when I took today’s photo. I saw this place in person for the first time in 2007.

March 5th, 2014 | Tags: kyoto, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600, 金閣寺 | Category: Japan | Leave a comment

8 photo-photomerged panorama of Kyoto’s Shugakuin Imperial Villa

The sky wasn’t so great for a panorama like this, as rain had been coming down in buckets and was about to begin again. I took this photo on one of the hottest and most humid days of 2013 in Kyoto. Not pleasant weather for such a pleasant place like the Shugakuin Imperial Villa.

March 4th, 2014 | Tags: kyoto, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600, panorama, photomerge, rice paddy, Shugaku-in Imperial Villa 修学院離宮 | Category: Japan | Leave a comment

Train heading for the Osaka Airport (KIX or Kansai Kuko or 関西国際空港) and then on to Wakayama (和歌山)

The scene on the day I left Japan for Korea last summer as I stood on the platform in the Tennoji Station in Osaka…

It doesn’t look like I will be going to Asia this year, but I will likely be spending a couple weeks in Mexico in August, my first return to Mexico in about eight years.

March 3rd, 2014 | Tags: Nikon 24mm f/2.8 AF-D nikkor lens, Nikon D600, osaka, trains | Category: Japan | Leave a comment